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Nine Lyric Poets
BacchylidesThe island of Keos offered a boy named Bacchylides a landscape rich with song and stone. Ioulis, his birthplace, stood as the cultural heart of that Aegean…
PindarA short biography discovered in 1961 on an Egyptian papyrus dating from at least 200 AD stands as the only ancient source containing all recorded details of…
Simonides of CeosSimonides of Ceos was born in Ioulis, the outermost island of the Cyclades. Ancient sources offer conflicting dates for his birth, ranging from 556 BC to 532…